Hi, I have created a netbackup flashbackup-windows policy
with the objective of backing up virtual machines but i cannot get it to work
successfully. I am using windows 2003 netbackup 6.5mp3 and esx 3.02 running
VMs of Win2003.
I have selected off-host backup and i have selected my VM
proxy (also my master server which i have previosuly added as a Virtual
Machine Proxy Server is Master Server host properties) .
In Policy snapshot client options i have selected
snapshot mount point of V:\vcb (this disk and folder exist on the proxy
server). All three other parameters are selected as 0 (although i have
attempted option 2 with VM backup). I have inserted the client name of the VM
and selected All_local Drives.
The validation of the advanced client polciy fails with
error message of "snapshot could not be created with vmware
method".
Before creating the policy i have inserted the name of the
esx server and username/password under credentials-> VM Servers.
I have also installed the VMware VCB v1.5 (downloaded from
the vmware website). Before doing this i removed the previous version of vcb
which was 1.1
I have permitted the proxy server to see the SAN attached
disks which are the VMFS disks on the ESX server and contain the VMs. These
disks can be seen in Windows Disk Management.
I have successfully used the vcbmounter command from
command line;
vcbMounter.exe
-h <FQDN of ESX Server> -u root -p <root password> -a ipaddr:<FQDN of virtual machine> -r
v:\vcb_mnt\<VM hostname> -t fullvm
I
do not know where to look next! Is there any configuration to text files that
must be performed after VCB v1.5 is installed (as there was in v1.1).
Thanks for any help, Mark
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